Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. His life is pretty boring and monotonous, though he once used to have passion and drive. Then one day he discovers that he has stomach cancer and has less than a year to live. After the initial depression he sets about living for the first time in over 20 years. Then he realises that his limited time left is not just for living life to the full but to leave something meaningful behind...... (Full plot summary below)
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Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. His life is pretty boring and monotonous, though he once used to have passion and drive. Then one day he discovers that he has stomach cancer and has less than a year to live. After the initial depression he sets about living for the first time in over 20 years. Then he realises that his limited time left is not just for living life to the full but to leave something meaningful behind...
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| Reno Gazette-JournalMark RobisonAn unqualified masterpiece that just may be Kurosawa's best. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertI think this is one of the few movies that might actually be able to inspire someone to lead their life a little differently. |
| San Francisco ExaminerJeffrey M. AndersonA heartbreaking masterwork from Kurosawa with nary a samurai in sight. |
| Time OutWally HammondKurosawa's eclectic style is a delight: his striking, varied compositions reflecting the old man's journey from darkness to some kind of light right until the moving finale. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonMeticulously constructed, beautifully played and poignant. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyKurosawa achieves the piercing emotion and poetry of the Italian neorealists, but by opposite means: he doesn't make the camera disappear; instead... he deploys his camera so sharply and unerringly that it seems to take X-rays of the spirit. |
| Graffiti With PunctuationBlake HowardNelson Henderson famously said "the true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." Kurosawa bathes us in the light of a man who gets to not only plant the seed, but look out on the sapling, with contentment. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonIf you have never seen it, you should. If you have seen it before, your admiration will only increase. |
| Kansas City StarRobert W. ButlerSimultaneously an intensely human story, a timeless snapshot of postwar Japan, and a scathing satire of the bureaucratic mind-set. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzA classic humanist tale without becoming mawkish. |
